, . - -' ....... . - . -., i ...-, .'. -v '. i POUNDEtD 1651 1 v . V TO oo lv B fo) 103BD YEAR 12 PAGES The Oragoa Statexncmw Scdsozw Oregon, Tuesday, September 15, 1953 PRICE' 5c No. 169 ! u u n n 7 'One ay Put off by Council Street Widening Okehed By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman ' Action on a one-way street grid for downtown Salem was put dff by Salem City Council Monday night after opponents of the traffic plan began making themselves heard. In other business at the City Hall meeting, the aldermen de- Ertr WwtrmttrWrn wW 00 Old Dan Reed stuck his cocaine needle in the idea of a nationa! sales tax and put it to sleep with his blunt statement that there would be no such tax, that Con gress wouldn't go for it Recently with heavies, outlays urged for national defense against the H-bomb- and with cuts from in come and excise taxes in pros pect, agitation for a nationa. sales tax has risen. The Alsops even figured out how much manufacturers' tax or a sales tax would raise for each per cent of the levy. Now the budget bal ancers and the eager spenders will have to back off and take a fresh look. And they had best look in some other direction than a retail sales tax. Dan Reed can speak with high degree of authority. It took all of the President's influence and Speaker Martin's arm twist ing to get an extension of the excess profits tax for six months. That was done over Reed's Quak ing body. As chairman of the House ways and means committee he is in position to dictate reve nue legislation, especially since he carries a majority of the com mittee with him. Reed insists that the income tax cut of ten per cent set for 1894 go into effect He already has a promise from the White House to let the EP tax die in January. It is safe to say he'd like to let the five per cent cut in the'ebrporation tax and other cuts built into excise tax laws occur (Continued on Editorial Page 4.) Baking Firm Plans Salem Bakery Plant A new bakery plant for Salem will be built this fall by Davidson Baking Co., of Eugene and Port land, that firm announced Mon day. This will be the second new bakery in Salem as Franz Baking Co. of Portland recently started construction on South 20th, south of Mission Street The Davidson bakery will be erected at 13th and Cross Streets where the company has owned property several years, announced President E. F. Davidson who said the plant would have about 7,000 square feet of floor space. Plans are now being prepared by Richard Sunleaf Architects. James Mohatt, Salem sales man ager for, Davidson's, reports the bakery's annual payroll in the Sa lem area is $70,000. Fifteen Wil lamette Valley routes are operat ed from Salem leased space. Misplaced Ticket Cuts City's Take' Mailboxes aren't parking - tag boxes and vice versa. Salem Postmaster Albert Gragg thought that should be made clear Monday when he discovered that omeone had dropped a red en velope and 50 cents fine into a corner postal box. But he said the city would get the envelope and the 50 cents all right marked "postage due." Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH 7JUT5 TWICERS YEAR HE'S LOOKED AT ME 7H FLIRT - Action I cided to widen and pave Market Street east of 21st Street next spring, to conduct a public hear ing Sept 28 on the proposed new zone code and to proceed with paving of Ferry Street between 19th and 20th at property owners' expense even though less than a majority of property owners there sought the improvement Council members said they had received several complaints against the proposed one-way street area expansion in recent days. Mayor Alfred W. Loucks said the council generally fa vored the plan but didn't want to rush it through even though some advantages would result from set ting up the grid at the time the Center Street bridge reopens later this month. Cites Narrow Street As it stands, the couplet of one-way bridges over the Willam ette River probably will go into operation at least two weeks before a street grid could be marked off. Chandler Brown, one of six persons speaking at a public hearing on the issue last night advised further study to learn what steps in addition to a one way end would be necessary to relieve traffic problems as in tended. He cited particularly downtown State Street which is too narrow for four lanes con sidered best for one-way opera tions. He said parallel parking, wider driveways or other meas ures should be considered. Spragne Appears Charles A. Sprague, represent ing the Capitol Planning Commis sion, asked that through traffic be kept out of the Capitol Mall and recommended that the grid extend no further east than Church Street for the present Carl Wendt City Transit Lines manager, opposed blocking one way streets off at Union and Trade Streets because more traf fic would be turned into those streets -which carry railroad tracks. Elmer Amundson, manager of the former one-way street com mittee of the Elfstrom adminis tration, endorsed the proposal but suggested several traffic guides such as additional cross walks or stop lines, and painted arrows to indicate turns. Page Stevenson asserted that parallel parking and no-left-turns would help traffic as much as one-way streets. (Additional council news on page 2.) Husband Held For Shootins McMINNVILLE OB A family argument ended fatally Sunday night at Grand Ronde and Joseph Kochis, 77, was in the Yamhill County jail Monday charged with first-degree murder. Sheriff W. J. Jones said Kochis told him he shot his wife, Rosa, 74, with a .22 calibre rifle. The bullet struck her below the left ear and she was dead before ar rival of an ambulance called by her husband. v ' Kochis, a pensioner, said his wife had defied him to "shut me up." Max. M Mln. Predp. M .M 53 .00 1 .00 49 trace Salem Portland SI Saa Francisco 83 Chicago . 65 New Yorlc es SI .00 Willamette River 3.1 feet. Mostly fair and continued warm today and tonic ht. Partly cloudy and idnesday. Kixneix lemper y near 85, lowest tonight near 48. Temperature at 11 ."01 a .it. was 56 decrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION I Since Start ( Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Year tart Year ' Normal trace JO -SO ; Driver Charged Assault in! NEWPORT. Ore. Ui State Po lice SgL William Colbert Monday filed a charge of assault with in tent to kill against a Newport au tomobile dealer whose partner is in a hospital with injuries. j Both were involved in an auto mobile accident last Thursday. 1 Richard Thomson, 25, was Jailed at Toledo under $3,000 baiL He was arraigned Monday and waived pre liminary and grand jury hearing. No date was set for him to enter plea. 1 - c 'i His partner. James K. Mueller was in serious condition at a hos pital here with compound leg frac tures, bruises and cuts. 1 Thomson first reported that the car he was driving and in which Mueller was a passenger plunged Classroom 5TT3 BROOKS Toung America returned to school in many mid-valley communities Monday including Brooks, nine miles north of Salem, where a pledge of allegiance to the flag was an opening ritual. The above pupils are in Alta Simmons' third-fourth grade. Like Bitter Gotham Campaign to Voters Today By ARTHUR EVERETT NEW YORK The city's may oralty primary campaign ended Monday night, with the Democratic Party gravely split by its first city hall contest since 1937. Republican and Liberal Party candidates are unopposed. The future of the, so-called con servative wing of the Democratic Party rides with Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri. seeking reelection. He is .backed by former Democratic National Chairman James A. Far ley, shooting, for a comeback and control of the New York state party organization. Son of Senator His chief primary rival is Man hattan Borough President Robert F. Wagner, son of the late New York senator who authored the New Deal's Wagner Labor Act in the 1930s. Behind Wagner is the so-called liberal or New, Deal wing of the party Americans for Democra tic Action Sen. Herbert H. Leh man, Averell Harriman and Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Tammanr Backed Wagner also is backed by Tam many Hall, the Manhattan Demo cratic organization, and the Bronx machine of the late boss Edward J. Flynn. The winner of Tuesday's Demo cratic primary will be pitted against three other candiates in the Nov. 3 general election. They are: Three Opponents Rudolph Halley, a Democrat who starred on television as the general counsel of the old Kefauver Senate Crime Committee. He is running on the Liberal ticket. Harold Riegelman, a Republican who served a short stint as New York City's acting postmaster aft er President Eisenhower took over the White House. Clifford T. McAvoy, candidate of the far-left American Labor Party. The ALP in recent years has swung little weight at the polls. Congress Aspirant First Man to File H. H. Stallard, Portland Demo crat, filed his candidacy for con gress Monday at the statehouse, becoming the first candidate to file for any office in next year's election. He filed in the third congressional district. With Deadly Crash on Coast of! the Coast Highway after the steering gear locked.' Thomson said he was thrown clear first, and Mueller was thrown out just be fore the car went over a 150-foot cliff. The car landed, on rocks at the shoreline, near Cape Foul wea ther, north of Otter Crest But under questioning, Sgt. Col bert said. Thomson admitted is a signed statement that be struck Mueller on the head with a section of pipe Just before the accident. Colbert quoted Thomson as saying he couldnt remember what hap pened after that Because of his condition Mueller could not be questioned. - Thomson told police he had been considering dissolving his partner ship with MneUer. Routine . Beckons Many Valley ! 1 - - - I f ' j T wm.-. t.hSI k( rfM&v v Valley Schools Count Climb in Enrollments By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Statesman y Pupils returned to classes in more than a dozen mid-valley com munities Monday and nearly everywhere it was the same story more students than last year. Dallas, Silverton, Woodburn and Albany were among eities re porting big increase. One of the biggest bulges was at Keizer, independent school dis trict closest to Salem, where 841 students were attending classes under the same roof. The Keizer enrollment was 93 higher than at the close of last term, according to Supt. Carma lita Weddle. Relief was near, however. Mrs. Weddle said the new Keizer school might be ready in four to six weeks. Meanwhile, 11 Keizer first and second grade classes were double shifted, with some pupils attend ing from 8 a. m. to noon, others from 12.-S0 to 4.30 p.m. Dallas Count Up At Dallas, Supt S. E. Whit worth said first grade registration leaped to 168 from 120 last year. Total enrollment for the city's four public schools was 1,308 25 more than at the start of last year. High school was down 21 from last year's 390, but late registrants were expected to push the total higher. The first eight grades total 939, an increase of 48. At nearby Rickreall, 80 stu dents showed up and Mrs. R. V. Carleson, principal, said they "looked out the window a lot be cause it was so warm." The total was eight more than last year. Start Kindergarten Woodburn had 56 more first- uay students than a year ago, according to Supt F. P. Doerfler Grand total was 724 of which 239 were at high school, 360 at Wash ington and 125 at Lincoln. Silverton reported 1,104 open- mg-cay students. Supt Howard Haiders tone said 73 of them were in the new public kindergarten. Grades one to six had 483 stu dents, 40 above last year. There were 99 first graders, the most in history. Other figures were high school, 385; junior high, 163. North Marion Union High School reported 172, about the same as last year. Hubbard Grade School had 189, down three from a year ago. Mere Enroll at Brooks Gervais Union High School opened with 143 'students, and Gervais Grade School counted 62. At Brooks Grade School there were 121 students, nine more than last September. Lake Labis h, one of the rural schools starting Monday, had 64 pupils, three more than last year, according to Principal Lloyd Lyda. Albany reported 2,610 students, an opening increase of 68. The high school listed 652, junior high 474 and grade school enrollment totaled 1,501. FatemiEyes Cairo Hideout . CAIRO, Egypt (A Hossein Fa teml right hand .man of Iran's ousted Premier Mohammed Mossa degh, has escaped from Tehran with a price on his head and plans to hide out in Cairo, an informed source said Monday. This source said Fatemi. who has slipped through Iran's biggest police dragnet, is either in Cairo or will arrive momentarily. The whereabouts of Iran's former for eign minister is top secret, govern ment sources said. ' . most schools, Brooks counted more students Monday than on open ing day last year, was prepared for more when crops are harvested. (Statesman photo by John Ericksen.) (Additional school pictures on Pge 7.) TrcyStaats, Former Polk Official Dies SUtetnua ftewi srrir DALLAS Tracy Staats, for mer mayor of Dallas for two terms and a Polk County employe for the past 30 years, died at a Dallas hospital Monday at the age of 79 years. Services will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. in the Presbyterian Church with Dr. Earl Benbow officiating and interment at Dallas Cemetery. The Bollman Funeral Home is in charge. Staats' service in Polk County included 28 years as school board clerk, city councilman, mayor, deputy assessor, deputy sheriff, county treasurer and some years in the tax department He was born Feb. 11, 1874, in Airlie, Ore., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Staats, both early Polk County settlers. His grand father, Isaak Staats settled in Oregon in 1845. Staats married Eloise S. Phil lips, March 28, 1906, in Portland. They have resided in Dallas since after their marriage. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Oddfellows Lodge, Masonic Lodge and the Shrine. Survivors include the widow of Dallas; two sons, Howard D. Staats, Dallas, and Dr. Thomas Phillip Staats, Portland; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Crider, Monmouth, and Mrs. Mary Wort man, McMinnville; a brother, Emmett W. Staats, Monmouth, and 10 grandchildren. WIL Playoffs At Salem 2. Spokaa S American League At New York 8. Cleveland S At Boston 8. Chicago 10 At Washincton 8. Detroit 1 Only same scheduled. National League At Chicago 3. Brooklyn 1 . At St. Louis S. Philadelphia 8 Only games scheduled. Police Chief KJifls Youftlhi. Takes TACOMA tff) A youthful es capade ended at the foot of Mt Rainier early Monday morning with the death of a 13-year-old boy and the sujeide of the police chief who shot him. Shot and killed as the car in which he was riding ran through a police blockade was young Kenneth Nelson of Seattle. , Dead by his own hand minutes after be shot the boy was Floyd E. Tharp, -41. chief! of police at Morton, a tiny logging community about 45 miles south of Tacoma. Tharp shot himself without know ing Nelson was dead. Sheriff A. Earl Hilton M Lewis County said. Other deputies at the scene said Tharp, "just fell apart- after the shooting. They said they walked with Tharp . down a road a short distance, trying to console him, un Youngsters l,154Enrolled For Parochial School Year Salem's three Catholic schools enrolled 1,154 boys and girls Mon day as their new school year started. Record high enrollments were reported at both elementary schools and both will have two full first grade rooms this year for the first time. , St Joseph's School counted 461 students, including 84 first grad ers. , The St Vincent dePaul en rollment of 447 included 85 first graders. Both have an additional room this year, making 10 class rooms. More Expected At Sacred Heart Academy 246 high school students enrolled, about the same as last year. All three schools expect additional students to report later this week or next, as many boys and girls are reported finishing up sum mer jobs. Among new faculty members at Sacred Heart are two Francis can fathers from California, now living at Shaw. They are the Rev. John Francis dePaenelaere, his tory teacher, ad the Rev. Kelvin Murphy, Latin. Both also will teach religion. School officials said the fathers are here also to study the possi bility of future Catholic high school expansion for the Salem area. New Teachers Other new teachers on the academy faculty of 17 are Sister Michaelann, science, Sister Re gina Mary and Sister Mary Elaine, who will teach music at the academy and at St Joseph's. Sister Mary Aquinas is the new principal at St Joseph's. Also new there are Sister Joel Mary, Sister Celeste Marie,' Sister Vic toria Maria, Mrs. Clifford Etzel and Mrs. John Pizzuti. St Vincent's faculty now in cludes 11 sisters and two lay teachers. New this year are Sister Marcella Maria, music, and Mrs. Edward Meier, second and third grade teacher. Sister Margaret Jane is principal Salem public schools and Salem Academy will open next Monday. Today's Statesman General News 2, 3, 4, 5 Market News 3 The Oatis Story 4 Society News 6 Sports News 8, 9 Classifieds 10, 11 til he finally told them he was all right ' But a moment later he pulled his revolver from its holster, placed the muzzle in his mouth, and fired. He died instantly. ' Law enforcement officers from Lewis and Pierce counties gave this account of the tragedy: Nelson, with two other boys from Seattle, both 14, were running away from home. One borrowed his fath er's car, although he said later he had driven it only twice. , En route to Portland, the trio stopped at a motel on the mountain road near the Mt Rainier National Park. , The proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Jones, were awakened by a noise in the motel courtyard. In vestigating, they saw a shadowy figure apparently tampering with the gas tank on a parked car. Jones turned on lights in their -N l . By DOUGLAS i CHICAGO (JPV The big oratorical guns of the Democratic Par ty raked the Eisenhower administration Mondiy night as govern ment by postponement, operating a "wrecking crew" in Washington andi letting biased millionaires and big business tun the nation, t Hit was Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee of last year, who accused the GOP of putting things off, , It was former President Harry S. Truman who declared a wrecking crew is "undermining and tearing down" in the national capital and that Democrats must i keep America and the world from thej road to ruin." Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois said.it is big businessmen who are working havoc with the interests of the i American people through a "give-away, throw-away, sell-away program." This top trio of party leaders and more besides cannonaded the GOP at a national Democratic rally de signed to ring up the curtain for the 1954 election and regain control of Congress for the Democrats. $l9fa-plate Dinner . They spoke at a $100-a-plate din ner to some 1.600 party partisans assembled in the grand ballroom of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. , Stevenson quipped that he was relieved to discover there still are so many Democrats in the country and j that after nine months of a Republican administration "s o many of them have $100." The former Illinois governor said the COP brought about a change, all right, but it seems to be mostly one, of attitude. Now, he said, they seem to be doing their best to per suade the people they won't "touch a tingle one of these advances of the past 20 years." Draws Applause i The administration's motto, Ste venson said, seems to be: "When in doubt, appoint a commission and the areas of doubt are very wide." Taxes are going to be studied and taken up at the next session of Congress, he said, and that goes for revision of the Taft-Hartley Law and 'foreign trade policy "I. guess you might call it govern ment by postponement," Stevenson said. Laughter and applause rolled through the ballroom. Announcements of defense cuts, followed by threatening words in Asia, Stevenson declared, sounds as though the administration was saying to the Communists, "one false move from you guys and we'll cut the national defense by another billion dollars." Called Solemn Hour Thunderous applause rolled through the hall as Stevenson used his tapier on the Republicans, Stevenson said the hour is too solemn for partisan satisfactions. with a weary world, on the thresh- hold of momentous negotiations in Asia and EuropeKorea, China, In dochina and Germany. Fateful decisions that affect us all confront the administration, he said, and "it is our government as well as the KepuBlicansY . "The job of the Democrats." be counseled, "is to help in every way ht . ..... Tidal Waves Hit in Fijis, Canada Coast AUCKLAND. New Zealand vn An earthquake accompanied by a tidal wave struck the Fiji Islands in the southwest Pacific Monday, killing at least two persons and smashing buildings. The islands, Britain's most im portant colony in the Pacific, are about 1,100 miles north of Auckland and ; about 1,500 miles northeast of Australia. Reports from Suva, colonial capi tal on Viti Levu, largest of the islands, said the center of the quake appeared to have been not far fouth of that city. SOOKE. B. C. (A Giant waves. rolling in from the Pacific, caused injury to several persons Sunday, capsized small boats and wrecked fishing gear at Gordon Beach on the. west coast of Vancouver Is land. Experienced fishermen, however. discounted reports that the waves and surf had been caused by an earthquake creating a tidal wave. Waves 15 feet high tossed logs about like matchsticks, while small boats rolled in the rough surf. One witness said the sea was calm, then suddenly receded, built up a tremendous volume of water. and crashed in waves 12 to 15 feet highi home and the youths fled up the mountain road into the national park toward Longmire. Jones knew the road was a dead end and notified police authorities. Tharp, Sheriff Hilton and Lewis County Deputies Ed Stanich and Orville Amundson responded. With one i vehicle, they set up a road block at the-motel. In a second car, the sheriff and Stanich drove up the mountain road. - They met the car, which had turned about, approximately a mile andi a half from the roadblock. They signalled it to stop. As it whizzed by. Stanich fired a shot gun blast at the tires. Sheriff Hil ton radioed back to the roadblock of the developments. As the young trio approached the roadblock at the motel, their car veered into the courtyard of the motel, attempting to avoid hit- "B. CORNELL-- -it at Transfer By SAM SUMMERLIN MUNSAN Lf Angry, rock-hurl ing anti-Communist Chinese pris-' oners balked Monday at being turned over to Indian custody in the Korean neutral zone and some thought they were being sent back, to the. Communists. Indian custodial troops restored order without bloodshed. An additional 2,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners, the larg est number yet in the 6-day-old movement, were to be sent to the neutral zone Tuesday. . ; United Nations Command officers handling the mass transfer of 14, 700 Chinese and almost 8,000 North , Koreans from Allied prison camps' to stockades in the neutral zone, said it took four hours to get 250 Chinese prisoners into the camp Monday. i Another 250 stoned Red observ ers and grappled with Indian' guards. Other rock-throwing, fist-swinging Chinese prisoners staged violent shows of defiance when they spot ted Communist observers watching their transfer from U.N. control to Indian guardianship. : A U.N. Debates Seen on ans UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (A A new fight between the Commu nists and the U.N, majority over the Korean peace conference ar rangements threatened Monday to mar the opening days of the eighth United Nations General Assembly. The battle is expected by dele gates to make worse the prospects for an eventual settlement The delegates of 60 nations will begin, the session Tuesday at 2 p.m. it is anybodjrs guess how -quickly Soviet Chief Delegate An- riri V. VlahincW will rwnwn thm Communist fight to broaden the peace conference and to invite Red Chinese and North Koreans here for this new debate. Red China's i Foreign Minister Choi En-Lai informed Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold Sun day that Peiping wants Russia, In dia, Burma, Pakistan and Indone sia to take part in the peace con ference. '; The United States Immediately rejected the Peiping proposals and France and Britain indicated Mon day they will stand beside Wash ington in this rejection. Hammarsk jold distributed the Red .Chinese communication to all member coun tries. 8-Year-01d Found Alive SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif, cn Eight-year-old Dana McClure of Pacoima, Calif., miss ing for more than five days In rugged back country, was found alive and well Monday except for a few scratches and bruises. Assistant Chief Ranger Car lock Johnson said one of several search parties heard the boy crying faint ly as it explored along the huge gorge cut by the Marble fork of the Kaweah River. The ranger said the youngster saw tne party' approacning dui didn't make a ! sound until they were almost upon. Then he ran to Clark and grabbed him about the legs in a tight embrace. Ovm Loire ting the vehicle parked in the mid dle of the highway. In swerving, their car almost hit Amundson. The officers opened fire. , The car swung out of control and plunged down over an embank ment, lahding 25 feet below. The driver and one companion were shaken, but uninjured. The car was demolished. Nelson was wounded, but responded to ques tions. He was carried to the road. It was then that Tharp walked away from the scene, hysterical, repeating over and over that he . had two sons about the same age. ' While Tharp was gone. Nelson died. Minutes later. Tharp'a revolv. er spoke and he. too, was dead. "Under the circumstances. Tharp had perfect justification to shoot at the car." Hilton said. Officers said an autopsy performed Monday aft ernoon showed it was Tharp's shot which killed Nelson. Anti-Balk, Reds Meeting PI